#krisonomics by Ektrit Kris

 TWITTER THREAD HERE · DOLLAR SHORTAGE thread 1/ Watch the video enclosed in the first tweet explaining shadow banking by Lynn Stout. It was Chris Whalen which promoted that video trying to explain to twitter followers what shadow banking was. 2/ So, to keep it simple, mega financial players in shadow banking creates BETS in trillion of dollars. Let me repeat this again: INSOLVENT MEGA PLAYERS ENGAGE IN BETTING IN SHADOW BANKING. 3/ Lynn Stout explains how laws were changed to make that possible, with London being in the epicenter of it. Insolvent mega financial players create bets in shadow banking in trillions of dollars NOMINAL at extreme leverage. 4/ All corporations BET in shadow banking with mega financial players as well, as we need two sides to bet, normal. Bets are usually called Interest Rate Swaps or other derivations of interest rate derivatives, but they are all ALL dependent on interest rates. 5/ As we know in bets, one side wins, one side loses. If the losing side is...

  The Question of Illyrian-Albanian Continuity and its Political Topicality Today - by A. Stipcevic http://www.trepca.net/english/2006/the_question_of_illyrian_albanian_continuity_by_prof_aleksander_stipcevic.htm The question of the ethnic and cultural continuity between the early Illyrians and the mediaeval Albanians, besides being one of the most attractive issues of Balkan history, has also acquired a political dimension in recent decades. This is not the first time such a thing has happened in history. It was the Croats who before anyone else put forward the claim of being descended from the glorious Illyrian people, to the point of identifying themselves with them and giving themselves the name of Illyrians. For centuries, the Croatian language was simply called Illyrian. It is thought that Vinko Pribojevic (Vincentius Priboevius) in the 16th century was the first to include the history of the Illyrians in what might be called a political program. Pribojevic idea; countering t...